The geography of the visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined, exhibited, interpreted, and acquired according to a blueprint drawn up in New York, London, Paris, or Berlin. The art world distributed itself into art worlds. With the emergence of new art scenes in Asia and the Middle East and the explosion of biennials, the visual arts have become globalized as surely as the world economy has. This book offers a new map of contemporary art’s new worlds and documents the globalization of the visual arts and the rise of the contemporary over the last twenty years.

The geography of the
visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined, exhibited,
interpreted, and acquired according to a blueprint drawn up in New York, London, Paris, or Berlin. This
fascinating volume shows how the lines were redrawn.Publishers Weekly